JP6255621B2 - Leek washing machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a leek washing machine for washing away dirt such as soil adhering to leek roots.

  Conventionally, this type of machine is generally known that injects compressed air or high-pressure water toward a green onion root (Patent Document 1, Non-Patent Document 1, and Non-Patent Document 2). Many of these washers also have the ability to peel off dirt and at the same time peel off the outermost surface.

JP 2004-283137 A

"Onion peeler, washing machine, vegetable bagging machine, baby leaf, vegetable leaf cutting machine", [online], Okayama Oil Sales Co., Ltd. [searched August 7, 2013], Internet <URL: http: // www .negipika.jp /> "Onion washing machine", [online], Yasuyuki Yamawaki, [Search August 7, 2013], Internet <URL: http://sky.geocities.jp/yamawakisyohkai/>

All the conventional leek washing machines require a compressor to supply compressed air and high-pressure water. Therefore, it is expensive and difficult for small businesses to obtain independently.
On the other hand, in the case of the amount of green onions handled by a small business operator, cleaning with a machine increases efficiency and reduces labor, but it is sufficient to peel the skin manually.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a leek washing machine at a cost that can be obtained by a small business.

In order to solve the above problems, the leek washing machine of the present invention is:
In what cleans the leek root dirt,
A bottomed basket that can accommodate leek bundles in a vertical direction and allows water to enter and exit from inside and outside,
A platform that rotatably supports the car with a horizontal support shaft as a rotation axis;
And swinging means for swinging the car with the support shaft as a fulcrum.

  When washing leek using the leek washing machine of the present invention, prepare a suitable container such as a basket, bucket, water tank, etc., put water into the container and store the leek bundle in the basket, and store the leek bundle. Immerse the basket in water. In this state, when the car is rocked by the swinging means with the support shaft as a fulcrum, as the water enters and leaves the car, dirt on the green onion leaves the green onion root and moves in and out of the car with water. Gradually falls to the bottom of the container.

The oscillating means comprises a rotational motion drive source and a cam device that converts the rotational motion into a horizontal motion and transmits the horizontal motion to the car. This is because driving energy is efficiently consumed .

The cam device includes, as shown in an embodiment described later, a cylindrical cam that revolves around the output shaft of a rotational motion drive source, a vertically long slot provided in the cage, and the cylinder A bearing that fits with the cam and has the same diameter as the arc of the elongated hole and rolls in the elongated hole with the cylindrical cam is provided. According to this cam device, since the bearing has the same diameter as the diameter of the arc portion of the long hole, when the bearing rolls with the turning of the cylindrical cam, the displacement in the horizontal direction passes through the long hole. The displacement in the vertical direction is transmitted to the car and absorbed in the long hole. Therefore, the car swings with the support shaft as a fulcrum. Since each mechanical element of the cam device has a simple shape, the manufacturing cost is low.

  The basket may be made of a single material having both a portion through which water enters and exits and a long hole. However, in terms of ease of processing, the basket is preferably made of a main body and a bracket. . In this case, the main body is made of a plate material, has a bottomed space for accommodating the leek bundle, and has drain holes on the bottom surface and the side surface among the surfaces that determine the space. Here, the side surface means a surface intersecting the bottom surface. The bracket has a first surface fixed to a side surface of the main body and a second surface fixed to an end of the support shaft, and has the long hole.

  A preferable main body is one in which a V-shaped cut continuous with the upper end is formed in the upper half of the side surface, and a collar protruding outward is provided along the cut. Since the incision extends upward and the collar protrudes along the incision, the leek bundle can be easily put into the main body from above by being guided by the collar. On the other hand, once the leek bundle is inserted, the notch is narrowed downward, so that it is not thrown out by the acceleration of the car while the car is swinging.

Among the mounts, it is preferable that the angle of the support shaft with respect to the horizontal can be changed. This is because by lifting the car by changing the angle of the support shaft, the water can be drained after the washing without moving both the water container and the washing machine.
If the drive source has a switch that drives at the same time as the support shaft becomes horizontal, it is possible to save the trouble of putting a switch separately.

  As described above, according to the configuration of the washing machine of the present invention, the leek root can be removed at low cost without the need for a compressor, so the labor of a small-scale business operator is reduced and the production efficiency is improved.

It is a partially broken front view showing the leek washing machine of the embodiment. It is a right view which shows the same leek washing machine. The cage main body used for embodiment is shown, (a) is a front view, (b) is a right view, (c) is a bottom view. It is a perpendicular direction sectional view showing the important section containing the drive source and cam device used for an embodiment. It is a figure which shows the positional relationship of the cam used for embodiment, and a cam follower. It is a front view which shows the state in which the leek bundle is accommodated in the car main body.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the leek washing machine 1 of the embodiment includes a car 2, a gantry 3, a motor 4, and a cam 5 (omitted in FIGS. 1 and 2). The car 2 includes a bottomed car body 6 having a reverse trapezoidal shape in a normal (back) view and a vertically long square shape in a right (left) side view, and a rectangular parallelepiped bracket 7 having an open rear surface. Both the car body 6 and the bracket 7 are made of a metal plate material.

  The car body 6 has an internal space for accommodating about 10 to 20 leek bundles in a vertical direction. A plurality of elongated drain holes 6a are formed side by side on the side and bottom of the lower half of the car body 6 as shown in FIG. A V-shaped notch 6b is formed on the front surface of the upper half 4 side surface of the car body 6 and a collar 6c is formed extending outward along the notch. The collar becomes wider as it goes up.

  The front surface of the bracket 7 is welded to the rear surface of the upper half of the car body 6, and a cam follower 8 made of polymer resin is fixed to the upper rear surface as shown in FIG. 4, and the plate 7a is welded to the lower rear surface. The cam follower 8 is formed with a long hole penetrating in the front-rear direction toward the front. The long hole forms a semi-cylinder whose upper and lower surfaces face each other, and the left and right surfaces are parallel to each other.

  The gantry 3 includes a table 31, a lower attachment 32 that is bolted to the top plate of the table 31, and an upper attachment 33. The upper attachment 33 is attached to the lower attachment 32 via a rotation shaft 34 that extends in the left-right direction when viewed from the front. A handle 35 is attached to the upper attachment 33. The handle 35 has an L shape, a short side of the L shape is parallel to the rotation shaft 34, and a long side extends forward. Therefore, the angle of the upper attachment 33 with respect to the top plate of the table 31 can be changed by raising and lowering the handle 35. A support shaft 9 is attached to the upper attachment 33 via a bearing in the front-rear direction toward the front, and the front end of the support shaft 9 is welded to the bracket 7 through the plate 7a. Therefore, the car 2 can rotate about the support shaft 9 as a rotation axis.

As shown in FIG. 4, the motor 4 is mounted on the top plate of the upper attachment 33 so that its output shaft is parallel to the support shaft 9.
The cam 5 has a cylindrical shape and is attached to an eccentric position at the tip of the output shaft as shown in FIG. Therefore, the cam 5 turns around the output shaft when the motor 4 is driven. The tip of the cam 5 is located in the long hole of the cam follower 8, and a ball bearing 10 having the same outer diameter as the width of the long hole, that is, the diameter of the upper and lower semicircular arc portions is fitted to the tip. Accordingly, the ball bearing 10 rolls in the long hole as the cam 5 turns, and the cam follower 8 moves in accordance with the phase of the ball bearing 10.

  FIG. 5 schematically shows the movement of the cam follower 8 relative to the output shaft as viewed from the output shaft direction for each phase of the ball bearing 10. The small circle drawn by the solid line in the figure is the output shaft, and the black dot is the cam. The center of 5 and the great circle indicate the ball bearing 10. First, when viewed from the direction of the output shaft, when the cam 5 is at the 12 o'clock position of the watch as shown in FIG. The ball bearing 10 is contained in the upper half cylinder of the long hole. Then, as shown in FIG. 5 (b), when the cam 5 turns clockwise, the ball bearing 10 moves away from the semi-cylinder, and accordingly, the cam follower 8 also moves in the horizontal direction by the amount of horizontal displacement. When the cam 5 further turns and reaches the 3 o'clock position of the timepiece as shown in FIG. 5C, the position of the ball bearing 10 becomes the center in the vertical direction of the long hole, and the amount of displacement in the horizontal direction is maximized. . Thus, the rotational motion of the output shaft is transmitted to the car 2 as a horizontal motion.

  When the leek is washed using the leek washing machine 1, a suitable container V such as a basket, a bucket, a water tank or the like is placed in front of the table, and water is put into the container V. Then, with the handle raised, the leek bundle G is stood and accommodated in the car body 6 as shown in FIG. Since the notch 6b spreads upward and the collar 6c protrudes along the notch 6b, the leek bundle G can be easily inserted into the car body 6 from above by being guided by the collar 6c.

The handle 35 is lowered and the leek bundle G is immersed in the car body 6 together with water. When the motor 4 is driven by turning on an unillustrated switch in this state, the car 2 vibrates with the support shaft 9 as a fulcrum, and water enters and exits the car 2 vigorously. Since the notch is narrowed downward 6c, it is not thrown out by the acceleration of the car 2 while the car 2 is swinging. Then, the soil of the green onion detaches from the green onion root and gradually falls to the bottom of the container V while entering and leaving the basket 2 together with water.
After an appropriate time has elapsed, the switch is turned off, the handle 35 is raised, the car 2 is taken out of the container, and the leek bundle G is taken out.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Washing machine 2 Basket 3 Mount 4 Motor 5 Cam 6 Basket body 6
7 Bracket 8 Cam follower 9 Support shaft 10 Bearing 31 Table 32 Lower attachment 33 Upper attachment 34 Rotating shaft 35 Handle 6a Drain hole 6b Notch 6c Collar 7a Plate V Container G Green onion bundle

Claims (5)

In what cleans the leek root dirt,
A bottomed basket that can accommodate leek bundles in a vertical direction and allows water to enter and exit from inside and outside,
A platform that rotatably supports the car with a horizontal support shaft as a rotation axis;
Rocking means for rocking the car with the support shaft as a fulcrum ,
The rocking means is
A driving source of rotational movement;
It consists of a cam device that converts the rotational motion into horizontal motion and transmits the horizontal motion to the car,
The cam device is
A cylindrical cam that rotates around the output shaft of the drive source in synchronism with the output shaft;
A long hole in the vertical direction provided in the car;
It said cylindrical cam and engaged, leek washing machine, characterized in Rukoto a bearing that rolls the length of the long hole with the cylindrical cam has the same diameter as the diameter of the arc portion of the hole. The basket is composed of a main body and a bracket,
The main body is made of a plate material, has a bottomed space for accommodating a leek bundle, and has drain holes on the bottom surface and the side surface among the surfaces that determine the space,
The leek washing machine according to claim 1 , wherein the bracket has a first surface fixed to a side surface of the main body and a second surface fixed to an end portion of the support shaft, and has the elongated hole. The onion washing machine according to claim 2 , wherein a V-shaped cut is formed in the upper half of the side surface of the main body, and a collar protruding outward is provided along the cut.   The leek washing machine according to claim 1, wherein the gantry is capable of changing an angle of the support shaft with respect to the horizontal. The leek washing machine according to claim 1 , wherein the drive source has a switch that is driven simultaneously with the support shaft being horizontal.

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